AAAHHHH I’m so excited!! So as you can see from the image, I actually hit 100,000 views last night, but I didn’t have time to post about it until now!!  I was literally clicking “refresh” every 30 seconds to see when it would happen.  I almost felt like confetti should have fallen from the ceiling and the National Anthem played (or something like that).  This really is super exciting for me, and I want to thank every single one of you for reading my blog!

In fact, I really want to do giveaways like I see other blogs doing just to show you how much I appreciate you!  The only problem is, I have no idea how bloggers get all that free stuff to give away.  I’ve contacted some super exciting companies about possibly partnering with me in a giveaway of one of their products, but I haven’t heard back from anyone.  Anyways, I say all that to reach this point:  I want to give you stuff to show you how awesome I think you are.  Hopefully, I will be able to start doing that soon. Until then, keep checking back for recipes and any news of potential giveaways!

In case you are interested, here’s a little rundown of my blog’s progress as of Oct. 2, 2012!  It’s crazy how much it’s boomed in only 4 months!

First post: May 30th, 2012

Number of posts:  129

Number of followers: 123

Number of comments (that aren’t spam): 425

Number of countries that have viewed my site: 106

Most popular post:  Garlicky Baked Shrimp (this post accounts for 65,511 of my 100,068 views.  It went viral on pinterest

and obviously that’s where more than half of my traffic comes from)

Average views per day (for the months of September and October): 1,965

Most views in a day: 3,860 (September 6th, 2012)

Top referrer: pinterest